How did American educational philosophy come to be so opposed to academic achievement? That is the heart of Zoch’s book, in which he describes the transition from education requiring disciplined ...

If you are a Progressive in the political sense of the word, here is the philosophy you subscribe to. If you think about public education, you think like John Dewey, the father of a progressive ...

Progressive education has many of the same goals as Self-Directed Education, and its advocates use much of the same language, but the foundational philosophy is quite different and the methodology ...

The theory of progressive education, which became dominate in schools and universities in the mid-twentieth century, revolutionized the American educational system. Subjects like literature ...

Education: Old-Fashioned Progressive. 4 minute read. ... Headmaster Smith has spanned the whole history of the American progressive ... but he also refused to follow the free-for-all philosophy of ...

Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 to August 7, 1941), the polymathic Nobel Laureate from Bengal, is renowned not only for his literary brilliance but also for his progressive ideas on education.